## *TELEGRAM

Source: PSS vol. 53

TO ALL GUBERNIYA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, GUBERNIYA PARTY COMMITTEES,

GUBERNIYA TRADE UNION COUNCILS, GUBERNIYA LABOR COMMITTEES

October 10, 1921

Under the influence of the aggravated food situation in the Donbas during the past months of May-July, tens of thousands of workers abandoned the mines and scattered, some beyond the boundaries of the basin. Flight was especially severe among coal-face workers, whose number fell from 16,000 to 10,000 in August, as well as among qualified workers in boiler operations. At present, a stable food situation has been established in the Donbas, namely: a three-month grain reserve has been delivered, which will be increased. It is proposed to develop broad agitation for the return to the mines of the underground workers who have abandoned the Donbas, such as: coal-face workers, cart drivers, pit props workers, drillers, tunnelers, haulage workers, as well as boiler workers and engine drivers. Do not send other workers, except for the categories indicated.

During agitation, clarify: 1) complete assurance of grain; 2) introduction of new rules for payment of labor in food and money according to productivity, with the abolition of egalitarian distributions of food and money; 3) the success of the grain campaign in Ukraine depends to a considerable extent on the return of workers, [a campaign] held back by the lack of fuel for food transport.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin*

First published in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the typewritten text

signed by V. I. Lenin